Australia's two-times champion Toby Price has made another significant advance amid the dramatic dunes of the Empty Quarter in Saudi Arabia as he moved up to fifth place in the Dakar Rally.
Over the first half of the brutal race's first-ever 48-hour marathon stage, the Hillston motorcycle ace got to his overnight bivouac on Thursday evening in third place for the day, as he shot up two places from seventh place on the virtual overall standings.
Price, winner in 2016 and 2019, had admitted after the fifth stage that it was time for him to start to play catch-up after a mistake-riddled first week - and he did just that.
